On November 17, 2025 Deputy Heeren was advised at the start of his shift of a previous pursuit of a reported stolen vehicle in the City of Stewartville, Minnesota, that had gone south out of town. The driver of the vehicle was believed to be ANDREW CARL LEFF, [DOB redacted]. At approximately 2023 hours Deputy Heeren was searching for a suspicious vehicle that had been seen at Ag Partners in Stewartville, Minnesota that had been in the parking area and had driven away from the business after seeing employees.
The vehicle was a pick-up bearing tax exempt license plates with a City of Le Roy, Minnesota logo on the side. At approximately 2023 hours Deputy Heeren observed a vehicle matching the description of the one seen at Ag Partners traveling south on Main Street in the City of Stewartville, Minnesota. Deputy Heeren caught up to the vehicle in approximately the 400 block of Main Street South and observed the vehicle was bearing MN license 909687. Deputy Heeren ran a search on the plate and observed that it was registered to the City of Le Roy, Minnesota.
While following the vehicle Deputy Heeren observed that the vehicle was not maintaining a single lane of travel. Deputy Heeren activated his lights and siren in the 900 block of Main Street South and the suspect vehicle accelerated south on Hwy. 63. While traveling south the driver turned the yellow beacon warning lamp on the vehicle on and off, and continued to travel southbound at speeds of approximately 85 mph. At approximately 2025 hours Deputy Heeren terminated pursuit near mile marker 24 about 1 mile north of Racine, Minnesota due to the vehicle traveling on the wrong side of the road.
The suspect vehicle continued southbound through the City of Racine, at which point Deputy Heeren lost visual on the vehicle. At approximately 0015 hours Deputy Heeren was advised by dispatch that the vehicle he had been following had just been reported stolen by the City of Le Roy, reported to Mower County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Heeren then heard that Mower County Sheriff's Office had started a pursuit of the stolen vehicle going southbound. Deputy Heeren was later advised by Mower County Sheriff's Sergeant K. Fisher that they believed the driver to be ANDREW CARL LEFF, [DOB redacted]. At approximately 2029 hours Deputy Geier of the Mower County Sheriff's Office located the stolen vehicle southbound on Hwy. 63 just north of Hwy. 16 in Mower County.
Deputy Geier attempted to make a stop as he was aware that it had just fled from an Olmsted County deputy. The suspect vehicle did not stop and was pursued by deputies until reaching the Minnesota/Iowa state line. At 2059 hours law enforcement spotted the suspect vehicle in a field near [address omitted], Le Roy, Minnesota. Deputies approached the vehicle and found it abandoned. Deputies from Mower and Fillmore Counties, as well as Howard County, Iowa and the Minnesota State Patrol began to set up a perimeter around a wooded area near the vehicle, and Deputy Geier was advised to sit near suspect Leff's previous address in Le Roy, Minnesota and watch for him.
